Congratulations are in order for Natalie Portman! On Friday, the actor announced that she is expecting her third child—her first with her partner, the French music producer Tanguy Destable.

Revealing the joyful news to Harper’s Bazaar, Portman, who is 44, said: “Tanguy and I are very excited.” She added, “I’m just very grateful. I know it’s such a privilege and a miracle.” In the interview, she also discussed the complexities of fertility. Portman’s father is a fertility doctor, so she has long had a unique perspective on the subject, and an empathy shaped by that experience.

“I grew up hearing about how hard it is to get pregnant,” she told Bazaar. “I have so many people I love who’ve had such a hard time with it that I want to be respectful around that as well. It’s such a beautiful, joyous thing, and it’s also not an easy thing.”

Portman most recently appeared alongside John Krasinski in the heist comedy Fountain of Youth and in the upcoming art world dark comedy The Gallerist (directed by Cathy Yan and featuring a starry cast including Jenna Ortega, Charli XCX, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and more), which premiered at Sundance in January and is slated for release later this year.

Portman has reportedly been in a relationship with Destable since spring 2025, when they were first spotted together, though it’s not clear how they met. She has two children from her previous marriage to choreographer Benjamin Millepied: a 14-year-old son named Aleph and a nine-year-old daughter, Amalia.

Elsewhere in the interview, she reflected on the experience of being pregnant at this stage in her life. “There is a gratitude that when you’re young, you don’t necessarily grasp,” she said. “And there’s a calm and knowing myself: who I want to spend time with, what kind of energy I want around me that makes the experience so beautiful every day. And knowing it’s probably the last time, I cherish every moment.”

And as for how she’s feeling? She’s doing well and spending time walking around Paris, where she has lived on and off for years. “I have more energy than I thought I might,” she said.